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Kabaras Sugar rugby team players celebrates after winning against Menengai Oilers at Bull ring stadium at Kakamega on March 12, 2022. Photo by Benjamin Sakwa/ Standard

Picture the scene. A vast expanding rugby field surrounded by long tropical rainforest trees, enclosing a seething mass of humanity, congregating in their yellow shirts, jerseys and scarfs.

Everyone is jumping up and down to the tune of a local Luhya victory song emitting from the giant speakers mounted on the pitch side.

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